Reuters Entertainment News Summary

October 09, 2012|Reuters

Following is a summary of current entertainment newsbriefs.

Tokyo to NYC street-life shines in Tate photo show

LONDON (Reuters) - A toy gun-wielding child, New York highsociety at play and bored Tokyo commuters are just a few of thestartling images at a new Tate Modern exhibition exploring therelationship between two of the 20th century's leadingstreet-life photographers. "William Klein + Daido Moriyama"features more than 300 vintage prints, paintings, originalphoto books and installations by U.S. photographers Klein andJapan's Moriyama in a show which runs from October 10 untilJanuary 20.

Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman split after 30-year marriage

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actors Danny DeVito and RheaPerlman are separating after 30 years of marriage, DeVito'sspokesman said on Monday. Stan Rosenfeld said the pair hadsplit but gave no details.

World Chefs: Phan shares food, journey from Vietnam

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vietnamese-born chef Charles Phanshares his passion for his homeland and tips about how to cookits delicious food in his first cookbook, "Vietnamese HomeCooking". Phan and his family fled to Guam from Vietnam in 1975before settling in San Francisco a couple of years later. In1995 he opened his restaurant Slanted Door, which has wonacclaim for its modern interpretation of traditional Vietnamesefood. He now runs six other eateries in San Francisco.

Creator of "Sopranos" back with rock'n'roll tale

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The creator of the popular "Sopranos"is back, this time on the big screen with a new saga set in theNew Jersey suburbs filled with teenagers and rock 'n' rollinstead of mobsters and violence. David Chase's cinema debut,"Not Fade Away", which premiered at the New York Film Festival,is a coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s, centeredaround a group of teens who form a band and taste the entwinedallures of rock music and rebellion.

GENEVA (Reuters) - A package of diaries said to have beenposted to the United States from Britain in the 1960s couldprovide a vital clue to the origin of a controversial portraitpresented in Geneva last month as Leonardo da Vinci's original"Mona Lisa." But in a twist typical of the intrigue-prone worldof art, the diaries -- notes by early 20th century Britishconnoisseur and collector Hugh Blaker -- disappeared and theWashington address they were sent to seems never to haveexisted.

"I'm no vandal," says man who defaced Rothko art

LONDON (Reuters) - A man who claims to have defaced a majorpainting by Mark Rothko over the weekend in London said onMonday that Marcel Duchamp, the French artist most famous forhis 1917 urinal that shocked the art establishment, would be"happy" at what he had done. Police are investigating theincident on Sunday at Tate Modern gallery on the River Thames,where witnesses saw a man approach Rothko's 1958 canvas "Blackon Maroon" and inscribe it with black ink in the lowerright-hand corner.